Very valid points. Although I think you could emphasize Apple's success quite a bit more:
Apple is the 2nd largest American company period, by market cap -- right under Exxon Mobile.
Let me say again: Apple is the second largest company -- not just tech company, company in general. They have $50 Billion in liquid assets, with no debt. Their latest quarter was their best quarter ever. And by most accounts, they are still growing at quite a clip -- most analysts have Apple's stock pegged to go significantly higher. And their stock is at something like a quite-reaosnable 20:1 P/E ratio -- it's not a bubble stock price, in other words.
Yes, Apple is selling something like 10% of consumer computers in the USA, and less than that globally. But they are the SECOND BIGGEST COMPANY PERIOD, and one of the most profitable companies period. I think if the game keeps playing out like this, they have no interest in doing what Google, or anybody else, is doing.
Not an answer to the problem (which is huge) but at least now people can target their efforts to make an impact on the core issues that are leading to this. Interesting that the Army seems to have been a big contributor -- GO ARMY!:)
Absolute bull crap. Blackberry was the phone that most people agree was first to be associated with the concept of smart phone, and still is considered a smart phone. It is not way more open than the iPhone, in the way that you argue Android is. Are you arguing that Android is the only smart phone platform out there? Ok, so you've invented your own personal definition of smart phone, and iPhone does not meet that set of criteria. Good for you. Back on Earth, nobody cares about your personal definition, and just about everybody disagrees with you.
No, not for revealing a potentially dangerous flaw in AT&T security. What-evs.
I heard and read the word Goatse more today in the mainstream media than all points of my life added together, and I can only imagine how many lives were ruined by the ensuring Google searches! Hahahahahah!!!!!!!
You should read Halting State by Charles Stross, good bit of 2nd-person near-future sci-fi involving online gaming and associated economic issues. And crime and spycraft and other neat stuff -- it's really good!
I'm going to immediately disregard everything you ever post for the rest of your or my life, due to the fact that you are PINING FOR THE DAYS OF EXTENSIONS SETS.
OMFG MAN, ARE YOU REALLY SERIOUS?!?!?!
DOES CONFLICT-CATCHER RING A BELL?!?!?!?
Some people... cwaaazy!
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There once was a boy who was only a head. His name was Randy.
No body, no arms, no legs, only a head.
Every day, he'd roll to school and get picked on by everybody for only being a head. "Randy, you dweeb, you don't have a body!" they'd say.
So every night, before going to bed, he'd pray and pray that someday he'd grow a body.
And wouldn't you know it, one day he woke up and... he had a body!
Randy was so overjoyed he ran around screaming, "I finally have a body! I have a body!"
He ran all throughout his neighborhood, and then ran all the way to school, all 3 miles, because he was so overjoyed.
When he finally got to school, he ran toward the front entrance, ready to show off his body to everyone.
He ran across the street, and BAM. He got hit by a school bus. He died instantly.
The moral of the story is -- quit while you're a head.
DUH... The LHC gets fired up, and suddenly this kind of thing just randomly starts to happen? Suuuuuure.
Clearly, this was a mini black hole spawned by the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, and indeed they ARE harmless and just disappear after a few moments, or else we wouldn't have this little thread going on here, now would we?
Up! is an amazing, amazing movie. What they were able to do with that movie, which as far as I'm concerned is a legitimate piece of quality cinema, is simply fabulous. And how can you not like Doug, and Kevin, and an awesome airship?!
Before that there was this little movie called WALLâE you may have heard of -- I understand it was kind of successful, and well-received...
Yeah.... I'm not too worried based on the last several flicks. They've had a few movies I wasn't as hot on, but the recent trend seems to indicate higher quality than ever before, not lower.
The difference is, the you that wakes up every day really is you (as far as we know).
However, the duplicated copy of you would NOT be you, although it would sure think it was. But you would still be dead and gone! For the dead you, there would be no continuity of consciousness. Because, again, you'd be dead.
I'm sorry, you clearly didn't get the memo.
Even us crazed Apple fanboys gave up on making this argument, like, two years ago.
Cell + CUDA? Personally I am more interested in Nehalem + OpenCL + Grand Central.
You can keep your Cell + CUDA thank you very much.
Apple most certainly has the capital to open their own fab. With zero debt and over $25 Billion in liquid assets, they could do it. They have no reason to, but they could. However, design chips they do. They did buy P.A. Semi after all.
When I was in Japan a few months ago, I got a hell of a lot of "iPhone? Sugoi!" (cool!) in response to using my iPhone in public. The Japanese public may reject it for technical reasons (original lack of emoji support, tv, video, etc.) or pricing reasons, but "lack of cool" is not one of them, I don't think.
Little known fact: Anyone who uses the phrase "Apple Fanboy" is in fact either a Microsoft Fanboy, Linux Fanboy, Nokia Fanboy, HTC Fanboy, or Sony Fanboy.
Just thinking about USENET really takes me back. Back to the distant world of circa 1991 or so, when I was a geeky junior high school kid into the local BBS scene, and, this thing called "The Internet".
Ah yes, The Net, back before the web.
It was defined by the local UMass VAX/VMS system that had dialup access some friends of mine had stumbled across, which could get you into telnet, ftp, IRC, USENET... MUDs, MUCKs, MUSEs, and all sorts of other combinations of cool interactive textual programmable hangouts starting with the letters MU.
Man, thinking about USENET... I used to hold auctions, and bid on auctions, through rec.arts.anime.marketplace. This was before you could go to video stores and find walls and walls of anime. And of course before ebay, so "auctions" on the Internet were impromptu things done through email, with updates posted to the mailing lists.
Then there were the internet-connected BBS systems you could telnet into, and set up a real internet-based email address in, and then you could sign on to all sorts of neat mailing lists run by Majordomo and the like, such as NE-RAVES, Future Culture... I remember when a guy on Future Culture killed himself, it sent a ripple through the online community. Because back then, it really felt like you knew all these people on The Net. It was such an obscure thing. Barely any of my peers even knew what it was, and my parents barely had any idea.
Now my Mom met here boyfriend on E Harmony, and EVERYONE is on the Web, and everyone has an email address...
Man, the "old days", it really seems so quaint in retrospect, doesn't it? Back when if I had been a little more forward thinking, I could have registered every domain name in existence. Before URLS were on every commercial on TV (man, I remember the first time I saw a URL on TV, that TOTALLY blew my mind!)
And as dorky as it sounds, it seems like a very, very profound thing, a blessing even, to be alive in the generation that got to see the shift from essentially no internet (in the mainstream), to what we have today. Which is obviously still VERY much the baby stage of something much, much greater and profound.
Some day, people will wonder what it was like to be alive during the birth of whatever the Internet becomes, much as we muse today about what it must of been like when humans first realized they could convey meanings with symbols and pictures...
I am actually just now re-reading David Brin's Earth and I know this will bite us in the ass. We'll have evolved to a borg-like multidimensional entity billions of years out, and we'll be like "Oh CRAP it's Y2K all over again, but this time the fabric of spacetime is at stake! SHIT!"
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www.chesa.com -- I hear these guys are great, if I do say so myself. ;)
This is obviously the aliens' flying saucer moon base. We best not mess with it.
Probably a hell of a lot less ultra-geeky lame, and more just geeky, in the good way.
But, if it's true, and repeatable by others, well, wouldn't this just solve all our energy problems.
Very valid points. Although I think you could emphasize Apple's success quite a bit more:
Apple is the 2nd largest American company period, by market cap -- right under Exxon Mobile.
Let me say again: Apple is the second largest company -- not just tech company, company in general. They have $50 Billion in liquid assets, with no debt. Their latest quarter was their best quarter ever. And by most accounts, they are still growing at quite a clip -- most analysts have Apple's stock pegged to go significantly higher. And their stock is at something like a quite-reaosnable 20:1 P/E ratio -- it's not a bubble stock price, in other words.
Yes, Apple is selling something like 10% of consumer computers in the USA, and less than that globally. But they are the SECOND BIGGEST COMPANY PERIOD, and one of the most profitable companies period. I think if the game keeps playing out like this, they have no interest in doing what Google, or anybody else, is doing.
Not an answer to the problem (which is huge) but at least now people can target their efforts to make an impact on the core issues that are leading to this. Interesting that the Army seems to have been a big contributor -- GO ARMY! :)
Absolute bull crap. Blackberry was the phone that most people agree was first to be associated with the concept of smart phone, and still is considered a smart phone. It is not way more open than the iPhone, in the way that you argue Android is. Are you arguing that Android is the only smart phone platform out there? Ok, so you've invented your own personal definition of smart phone, and iPhone does not meet that set of criteria. Good for you. Back on Earth, nobody cares about your personal definition, and just about everybody disagrees with you.
No, not for revealing a potentially dangerous flaw in AT&T security. What-evs.
I heard and read the word Goatse more today in the mainstream media than all points of my life added together, and I can only imagine how many lives were ruined by the ensuring Google searches! Hahahahahah!!!!!!!
You should read Halting State by Charles Stross, good bit of 2nd-person near-future sci-fi involving online gaming and associated economic issues. And crime and spycraft and other neat stuff -- it's really good!
I'm going to immediately disregard everything you ever post for the rest of your or my life, due to the fact that you are PINING FOR THE DAYS OF EXTENSIONS SETS.
OMFG MAN, ARE YOU REALLY SERIOUS?!?!?!
DOES CONFLICT-CATCHER RING A BELL?!?!?!?
Some people... cwaaazy!
There once was a boy who was only a head. His name was Randy.
No body, no arms, no legs, only a head.
Every day, he'd roll to school and get picked on by everybody for only being a head. "Randy, you dweeb, you don't have a body!" they'd say.
So every night, before going to bed, he'd pray and pray that someday he'd grow a body.
And wouldn't you know it, one day he woke up and... he had a body!
Randy was so overjoyed he ran around screaming, "I finally have a body! I have a body!"
He ran all throughout his neighborhood, and then ran all the way to school, all 3 miles, because he was so overjoyed.
When he finally got to school, he ran toward the front entrance, ready to show off his body to everyone.
He ran across the street, and BAM. He got hit by a school bus. He died instantly.
The moral of the story is -- quit while you're a head.
The only problem with this observation is that in 2010, Google _REALLY IS_ Big Brother.
Burn those hairs right off your head!
And they even sell death-ray kits! Oh, I like these guys! http://unitednuclear.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=27_82
I'd like to chat more, as I grok ya. nickgold42 at comcast dot net. Drop me a line dude!
DUH... The LHC gets fired up, and suddenly this kind of thing just randomly starts to happen? Suuuuuure.
Clearly, this was a mini black hole spawned by the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, and indeed they ARE harmless and just disappear after a few moments, or else we wouldn't have this little thread going on here, now would we?
Doesn't "dirtier and more complex" also tend to come with a price?
Up! is an amazing, amazing movie. What they were able to do with that movie, which as far as I'm concerned is a legitimate piece of quality cinema, is simply fabulous. And how can you not like Doug, and Kevin, and an awesome airship?!
Before that there was this little movie called WALLâE you may have heard of -- I understand it was kind of successful, and well-received...
Yeah.... I'm not too worried based on the last several flicks. They've had a few movies I wasn't as hot on, but the recent trend seems to indicate higher quality than ever before, not lower.
However, the duplicated copy of you would NOT be you, although it would sure think it was. But you would still be dead and gone! For the dead you, there would be no continuity of consciousness. Because, again, you'd be dead.
I'm sorry, you clearly didn't get the memo. Even us crazed Apple fanboys gave up on making this argument, like, two years ago. Cell + CUDA? Personally I am more interested in Nehalem + OpenCL + Grand Central. You can keep your Cell + CUDA thank you very much.
Apple most certainly has the capital to open their own fab. With zero debt and over $25 Billion in liquid assets, they could do it. They have no reason to, but they could. However, design chips they do. They did buy P.A. Semi after all.
When I was in Japan a few months ago, I got a hell of a lot of "iPhone? Sugoi!" (cool!) in response to using my iPhone in public. The Japanese public may reject it for technical reasons (original lack of emoji support, tv, video, etc.) or pricing reasons, but "lack of cool" is not one of them, I don't think.
Little known fact: Anyone who uses the phrase "Apple Fanboy" is in fact either a Microsoft Fanboy, Linux Fanboy, Nokia Fanboy, HTC Fanboy, or Sony Fanboy.
Just thinking about USENET really takes me back. Back to the distant world of circa 1991 or so, when I was a geeky junior high school kid into the local BBS scene, and, this thing called "The Internet".
Ah yes, The Net, back before the web.
It was defined by the local UMass VAX/VMS system that had dialup access some friends of mine had stumbled across, which could get you into telnet, ftp, IRC, USENET... MUDs, MUCKs, MUSEs, and all sorts of other combinations of cool interactive textual programmable hangouts starting with the letters MU.
Man, thinking about USENET... I used to hold auctions, and bid on auctions, through rec.arts.anime.marketplace. This was before you could go to video stores and find walls and walls of anime. And of course before ebay, so "auctions" on the Internet were impromptu things done through email, with updates posted to the mailing lists.
Then there were the internet-connected BBS systems you could telnet into, and set up a real internet-based email address in, and then you could sign on to all sorts of neat mailing lists run by Majordomo and the like, such as NE-RAVES, Future Culture... I remember when a guy on Future Culture killed himself, it sent a ripple through the online community. Because back then, it really felt like you knew all these people on The Net. It was such an obscure thing. Barely any of my peers even knew what it was, and my parents barely had any idea.
Now my Mom met here boyfriend on E Harmony, and EVERYONE is on the Web, and everyone has an email address...
Man, the "old days", it really seems so quaint in retrospect, doesn't it? Back when if I had been a little more forward thinking, I could have registered every domain name in existence. Before URLS were on every commercial on TV (man, I remember the first time I saw a URL on TV, that TOTALLY blew my mind!)
And as dorky as it sounds, it seems like a very, very profound thing, a blessing even, to be alive in the generation that got to see the shift from essentially no internet (in the mainstream), to what we have today. Which is obviously still VERY much the baby stage of something much, much greater and profound.
Some day, people will wonder what it was like to be alive during the birth of whatever the Internet becomes, much as we muse today about what it must of been like when humans first realized they could convey meanings with symbols and pictures...
I am actually just now re-reading David Brin's Earth and I know this will bite us in the ass. We'll have evolved to a borg-like multidimensional entity billions of years out, and we'll be like "Oh CRAP it's Y2K all over again, but this time the fabric of spacetime is at stake! SHIT!"